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Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads
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The Evolution of Lego Sorting (2001)
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Personal Computer by Perplexity
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I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job
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Fungal Electronics (2021)
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Launch HN: Sentrial (YC W26) – Catch AI agent failures before your users do
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Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)
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Breakout Ventures raises $114M fund to back AI science startups
Breakout Ventures is finding growing success by backing early-stage startups in scientific fields such as biology and chemistry.
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Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are
Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are
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VC mega-funds are back with General Catalyst, Spark rumored to be raising billions
GC is said to be raising $10 billion and Spark Capital $3 billion. This after several other firms have also raised mega funds.
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Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank
For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” companies has been challenging that assumption, including
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Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says
According to a Reuters report, a foreign hacker broke into a server that was part of the FBI’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein — without realizing they had hacked an FBI server.
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WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signing up, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.
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Anduril, the autonomous weapons maker, doubles the size of its space unit
"We are focused on protecting space, assuring access to space, ensuring custody of space."